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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a safety clinic hosted by the NFL and the Chicago Bears for the mothers of youth football players on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Ill. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)

The NFL commissioner said Wednesday that expanding the number of playoff teams is very much a possibility.

The league's competition committee has supported the idea of expanding the field from 12 to 14 teams.

"It's not out of the question, but we didn't make that decision at all," Roger Goodell told ESPN.com on the idea of expanding the playoffs next season on the last day of the NFL's owners meetings. "We have more work to do. I wouldn't rule it out, but I wouldn't say that's the direction we're heading right now."

"I think there's a tremendous amount of interest in this, possibly even to the point of support, but we want to make sure we do it right. We've been very incremental when trying to do this," he said, according to Sportsline.com. "But we believed it could make our races toward the end of the season even more exciting, (with) more teams vying for playoff positions, which is great for our fans."